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Jessica Jagoe – City of Arden Hills December 23, 2022 <br />Project Narrative – Lindey’s Prime Steakhouse, Arden Hills, MN Page 5 <br />best practice and that providing cash-in-lieu for the remaining amount allows the City to <br />fund planting trees in areas that would be better suited, thus this is a better benefit to the <br />public interest of the code. In addition, and for your information, the 4-foot wide landscape <br />corridor on the north side of the existing parking lot is scheduled to have a screen fence <br />installed at a future time by the Owner, so this areas needs to be free of trees for future <br />construction. <br />· Public Street Frontage Trees – Code indicates 1 tree per 50 linear feet of public street <br />frontage. At 435 linear feet of frontage, this would equate to 9 trees required, but only <br />providing only 5 total (4 existing, 1 new). Upon review, a significant amount of frontage <br />does not accommodate tree plantings to officially qualify, but have numerous existing trees <br />on site to compensate, thus requesting that the existing and proposed trees identified are <br />adequate and no further street frontage trees be required. The grandfathered-in westerly <br />existing parking lot is located at the roadway right-of-way edge, thus there is no green space <br />is available on-site to plant any trees in this area. Future freestanding signs at the driveways <br />and overhead utility lines also complicate potential tree planting areas. Lastly, there is a <br />cluster of large existing trees, southeast of the restaurant, that is important to preserve from <br />the Owners preference, and not desired to plant additional trees under the existing canopy. <br />It is our perspective that adding more trees in limited landscape space along street frontage <br />areas does not provide a noticeable benefit to the public interest, and that the numerous <br />existing trees throughout the site provides the necessary context of the code intent. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br />SRF CONSULTING GROUP, INC. <br /> <br /> <br />Paul D. Schroeder, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP <br />Project Manager - Site Development <br />PDS <br />Enclosure(s)/Attachment(s) <br />cc: Mark and Tracy Lindemer-Lindey’s, Inc, Tom Nash – Ramsey County <br /> <br />S:\Marketing\Proposals\2022 Letter Proposals\15910.PP Ramsey County Lindeys Steak House - Site\Sent\Lindeys\221223_Lindeys- <br />Submittal\Backup\Narrative_Lindeys-ArdenHillsMN_SRF_2022-12-23.docx
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